Ibaan
municipality of the Philippines in the province of Batangas
Ibaan, officially the Municipality of Ibaan (Tagalog: Bayan ng Ibaan), is a municipality in the province of Batangas, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 58,673 people.
The town is known as the home of the "kulambo" (mosquito net), as its production and trading has become one of the most profitable businesses in the locality. Also known for its tamales that are wrapped in banana leaves.
Etymology
Ibaan is derived from a Tagalog word which means "the town where Iba flourishes." According to historians, the present-day municipality was greatly forested with Iba trees (Averrhoa bilimbi).
History
Once part of the former town of Batangas. Its present-day barangay Matala was the first municipal seat (poblacion) of Batangas beginning in 1780. Ibaan was established as a distinct town on February 11, 1832.
Pre-colonial and early settlement
Before the arrival of Spanish missionaries and colonizers, the area that would become Ibaan was a dense tropical forest, populated only sparsely by early Tagalog-speaking communities. By approximately 1747, settlers began arriving at a place that would become known as Matala, situated roughly four kilometers from where the modern Poblacion of Ibaan stands today.
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